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Public debate about immigrant integration has often led to a heightened awareness or even a collective redefinition of identiy. Such processes are studied through the unique example of Spain.

Todo sobre el amor ofrece nuevas formas radicales de pensar sobre el amor al mostrar su interconexión en nuestra vida privada y pública. En once capítulos concisos, hooks explica cómo nuestras nociones cotidianas de lo que significa dar y recibir amor a menudo nos fallan, y como estos ideales se establecen en la primera infancia. Ofrece un replanteamiento del amor propio (sin narcisismo) que aporta paz y compasion a nuestra vida personal y profesional, y defiende la importancia del amor para poner fin a las luchas entre individuos, comunidades y sociedades. Pasando de lo cultural a lo intimo, hooks explica la relacion que existe entre el amor y la perdida y desafia la nocion predominante de que el amor romantico es el amor mas importante de todos. Ademas, hooks denuncia el paradigma cultural de que el amor ideal esta impregnado de sexo y deseo y propone un nuevo camino hacia el amor mas pleno, compasivo y libre de verguenza.Para aquellos que no conozcan la obra de bell hooks, Todo sobre el amor es una lectura esencial y un libro brillante que cambiara la forma de pensar el amor, la cultura y la sociedad.

En formas de entrada de diario, los textos aquí recogidos no son solamente una reflexión personal, sino también un intento de captar el signo de nuestros tiempos a través de los acontecimientos que se producian cotidianamente: una posibilidad en el inicio, en una fase en los que apenas eran perceptibles y, en cualquier caso, antes de convertirse en parte de esos temas demasiado manidos y banales que pronto caen en el olvido.Algunos de estos acontecimientos formaran parte de nuestras vidas durante mucho tiempo, otros se desvaneceran antes de poder ser observados y estudiados en profundidad. En este mundo cambiante, proteico y caleidoscopico, es muy complicado predecir el curso de los acontecimientos y decidir de antemano cuales de ellos lograran gran proyeccion e importancia y cuales pasaran desapercibidos.El autor, siguiendo la maxima de William Blake, se propone contemplar el universo a partir de un grano de arena y, a partir de ahi, alertarnos de aquello que nos sucedera, o puede sucedernos, en nuestras vidas privadas, formas de solidaridad, perspectivas compartidas, las maneras en que percibimos a los demas y nos relacionamos con ellos, las fuerzas que configuran nuestras vidas, oportunidades e itinerarios, y las formas en las que tratamos de controlar, o cuando menos influir o incluso reformar para mejor alguna de estas dimensiones de nuestra existencia.Estas oportunas meditaciones por parte de uno de los pensadores sociales mas clarividentes de nuestra epoca despertaran, sin duda, el interes de un amplio abanico de lectores.

A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends theoretically grounded, rigorous analysis with empirical illustrations, to provide a state-of-the art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. The contributors to this volume offer a 360-degree perspective on ethnic conflict: from the theoretical foundations of nationalism and ethnicity, to the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, and to the various strategies adopted in response to it. Without privileging any specific explanation of why ethnic conflict happens at a specific place and time or why attempts at preventing or settling it might fail or succeed, the Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict enables readers to gain better insights into such defining moments in post-Cold War international history as the disintegrations of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and their respective consequences and the genocide in Rwanda, as well as the relative success of conflict settlement efforts in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, and Aceh. By contributing to understanding the varied and multiple causes of ethnic conflicts and to learning from the successes and failures of its prevention and settlement, the Handbook makes a powerful case that ethnic conflicts are neither unavoidable nor unresolvable, but rather that they require careful analysis and thoughtful and measured responses.

Marie-France Hirigoyen propone un estudio rompedor basado en su experiencia clínica. Denuncia la confusión entre el narcisismo sano, que permite tener la suficiente seguridad en uno mismo para autoafirmarse, y el narcisismo patologico que consiste en querer apabullar a los demas. Este libro es fundamental en una sociedad en la que cada vez son mas los individuos centrados en si mismos, pegados a sus pantallas, adictos a las redes sociales para valorizarse y existir unicamente en la mirada del otro.

Seamos «progres», conservadores o quimeras, el peso otorgado a la idea de exclusividad en una relación amorosa es un tema que levanta pasiones. En el fondo se nos educa para aspirar a una utopía: al

This volume summarises the materials presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sea Dumped Chemical Munitions held in Kaliningrad Moscow Region Russia in January 1995 The conference was sponsored by the NATO Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs in the framework of its outreach programme to develop co operation between NATO member countries and the Cooperation Partner countries in the area of disarmament technologies The problem of the ecological threat posed by chemical weapons CW dumped in the seas after the Second World War deserves considerable international attention the amount of these weapons many of them having been captured from the German Army is assessed at more than three times as much as the total chemical arsenals reported by the United States and Russia They were disposed of in the shallow depths of North European seas areas of active fishing in close proximity to densely populated coastlines with no consideration of the long term consequences The highly toxic material have time and again showed up for instance when retrieved occasionally in the fishing nets attracting local media coverage only Nevertheless this issue has not yet been given adequate and comprehensive scientific analysis the sea disposed munitio

The fourth edition of Uwe Flick''s Introduction to Qualitative Research remains the most comprehensive and thorough text in qualitative research. It is student-and user-friendly, thoroughly up-to-date in terms of the latest developments in the field, imminently practical. it is the single most important introductory book on qualitative inquiry in the social sciences today'' - Norman K. Denzin, University of IllinoisThe new edition of Uwe Flick''s bestselling textbook has been fully revised, expanded and updated. An Introduction to Qualitative Research guides the student step-by-step through the research process of qualitative research.This classic text covers all of the main theoretical approaches to qualitative research, and provides unmatched coverage of the full range of different qualitative methods and approaches now available to researchers.A range of new features have been added to the new edition including:- New structure to better meet the needs of teaching qualitative research- A new chapter on Grounded Theory plus updated coverage on the full range of other qualitative methods- A summary section discussing the state-of-the-art in qualitative research- A glossary- Updated cases studies, exercises and guided questionsThis new edition will continue to ensure that An Introduction to Qualitative Research remains an essential introductory text for all students of qualitative research.

"This kit will provide the reader with a systematic and readable approach to the design, implementation, and analysis of focus group data. The material is presented to help the novice learn how to actually conduct a focus group while at the same time enables those more experienced with focus groups to check their own performance against best practice. These materials will be the benchmark against which the practice of focus groups should be judged."

Enfrentados al desconcierto propio de nuestra sociedad líquida, muchos jóvenes sienten la tentación de quedarse al margen, de no participar en la sociedad. Algunos de ellos se refugian en un mundo

Keisai Eisen (1790 -1848) is especially known for his bijin-ga, pretty women, and landscapes. He is well known for his participation in the series 69 stations of the Nakasendo together with Hiroshige. The series A Tokaido Board Game of Courtesans, Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara use the Tokaido with landscape inserts as an excuse for showing courtesans and geisha, bijin-ga, to skirt the censorship. It was published 1821-1823. His bijin-ga are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818-1830). Most of them have impressive hairdo with many ornamental hairpins and combs. Their dress is extravagant with beautiful patterns and sublime embroideries. Their faces are elongated squares with long noses and small pouted painted mouths. Courtesans were desirable for their rich and splendid attire, not so much for their beauty and their names were actually like trademarks for a series of girls performing the same name role with the brothel in question.

The Scenic Places of the Tokaido (Tokaido Meisho no Uchi) by 17 artists is based on the list of prints on the Kunisada Project website run by Dr Horst Graebner with a total of 162 ukiyo-e prints. It is a fantastic work, an effort presumably directed by the shoguns political office to commemorate his attempt to preserve a joint rulership with the emperor over Japan. It differs from the many other Tokaido series by the large number of prints, at least three times as many in a series. If differs by the number of people in the prints - the procession consisted of 3,000 people. It also marks the end of the ukiyo-e Tokaido, where the forced travel of the daimyo - sankin-kotai - had contributed so much to the economic and cultural development along these roads and indeed to the whole print making industry. The shogun abolished sankin-kotai in 1862.

Estas son las páginas en las que estaba trabajando Zygmunt Bauman justo antes de su muerte. Se trata de una conversa - ción con Thomas Leoncini, un joven periodista italiano. Por primera vez, Bauman aborda el universo de las generaciones nacidas a mediados de los ochenta, los nativos de una sociedad liquida que cambia a velocidad vertiginosa. Bauman y Leoncini hablan de tatuajes, cirugias plasticas, hipsteres, del acoso escolar, de las redes sociales y de las transformaciones en el amor y la sexualidad en esta era del comercio electronico.

This book challenges dominant top down approaches to climate mitigation in the land sector arguing that without genuine negotiation recognized land rights and tailored capacity building for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities IPLCs most solutions will inevitably fail or do harm

This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete moralities. The author's fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as "coalition enforcement", "moral bubbles", "cognitive niches", "overmoralization", "military intelligence" and so on, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author's original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book might help us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically "violent beings". To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing.

Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems When a social system has external elements imposed upon it or presented to it political problems are likely to emerge This book demonstrates that what is needed are connecting social elements with a natural affinity to bring people together despite their differences This book is different from others in the field It provides new insights by critiquing the extant understandings of accountability and expands the possibilities by building on Charles Taylor s philosophies Central to the argument of the book are perspectives on authenticity and expressivism which are found to provide a radical reworking of our understanding of being in the world and a starting point for rethinking the way individuals and communities ought to be dealing politically with accountability and ecological crises The argument builds to an accountability perspective that utilises work from interpretivism liberalism and postmodern theory The book will be of interest to researchers in environmental philosophy critical perspectives on accounting corporate governance corporate social reporting and environmental accoun